Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood